Endor Labs has emerged from stealth, launching the company with a Dependency Lifecycle Management Platform that helps development and security teams maximize software reuse by safely evaluating, maintaining,and updating dependencies.
The average enterprise has more than 40,000 open-source dependencies directly downloaded by developers. Each of those dependencies can bring in on average 77 other (transitive) dependencies creating a massive, uncontrollable sprawl that slows down development and increases the attack surface across multiple dimensions.
The existing environment doesn’t have adequate solutions to deal with this problem. For example, software composition analysis (SCA) tools lack context on how developers use the dependencies. As a result, they drown developers with endless false positives, and miss the ability to influence better OSS selection, prioritize remediation or detect malicious dependencies.
“Eighty percent of the code in modern applications is code your developers didn’t write but depend on through open-source packages. When our founding team was leading the Prisma Cloud engineering group at Palo Alto Networks, we realized the true magnitude of this issue,” said co-founder and CEO Varun Badhwar. “Having previously created the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, this team knows how to take on next generation threats. Our mission now is to enable OSS to live up to its true potential without introducing unnecessary risk. It’s exciting to once again take a new approach to the market, and we believe these solutions will radically enhance application development everywhere.”
Endor Labs’ platform provides security and development teams with an unprecedented understanding of how dependencies are being used across their organization.
Furthermore, by performing deep analytics on each OSS dependency, Endor Labs uncovers potential security and operational risks beyond known vulnerabilities. Endor Labs helps customers select better dependencies; secure, monitor and maintain them at scale; and respond to incidents like Log4j quickly. Having a full understanding of their dependency graph also lets customers generate and analyze accurate SBOMs and have a single source of truth for the entire software inventory.
This lifecycle approach to dependency management means it becomes easier to reuse software across the org. The result is increased productivity for development and security teams and significantly reduced supply chain risk.
The company also announced it has raised $25 million in seed financing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and Sierra Ventures, and several industry luminaries who have recognized the massive problem Endor Labs is solving. These include CEOs and executives from Palo Alto Networks, Zoom, Snowflake, Zscaler, Netskope, Rubrik, Databricks, Microsoft, and more.
Over the last year, more than 75 major organizations have provided feedback that has been incorporated into the product, which is in private beta with companies ranging from 200 to 35,000 employees. To join the beta, go to Endor Labs website and book a demo.
For more information, Badhwar has posted this blog on the founding of Endor Labs.